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No personal objections could bo ur
ged against the appoiutmcnt of Davis
H. Ijaac, for the Rccordership of
Philadelphia, and the Democrats of
the State Senate therefore did a prop
er thing in consenting to his confirma
tion. It was no part of their busi
ness to take cities in a - factional repub
lican fight.
UNCLE JOHN SIIEUMAN has a con
clusive reason to regard nephew Don
as a very undutiful kinsman. The
young man did not stand by the
administration in the matter of the
New York custom house appointments
worth a cent. It is true his vote is
not recorded on the question of con
firming Merritt nnd Burt, but that is
only owing to the fact that he was
paired with auother Senator who
would have voted in the affirmative
Had Donald notboen paired he would
have voted no with an unmistakable
emphasis.
U. F. SENATORS ELECTED.—R. F.
Jonas has been elected United States
Senator from Louisiana, vice Mr. Eus- '
tie He is an Israelite, and the third i
of that persuasion who has been clec- '
ted to tin- Senate. The others were
Dtavid Yulee of Florida and Judnh P. '
Benjamin, of Louisiana. Mr. Jonas
is a Democrat, and an able nnd sue- !
cemful lawyer in New Orleans.
J. J. INO AIXB, was rc-elected to the
Senate from Kansas on the 31st tilt.
The vote was Ingalls, 84 ; Ilorton, 79 . !
Csoodwin (Dem.) 2, and Mitchell
IG-) 1.
IT ha* been expected that early in
the present session of the State legis- ,
lature a hill would be presented to
provide for the payment of the losses
oerasiomd by the riots of July,
by the State. During the session of
the hou -, on last Monday night, this !
bill made its appearance. It wa* pre
sented by Speaker Long and referred
tn the committee ou ways and means.
The bill appropriates four millions of
dollars for the purpose, and provides
for the appointment of three commis
sioners to determine the damages and
the awards. These commissioner* are
also autl.ori/. -d by the bill to draw
their warrants directly upon the treas- i
ury in favor of any claimants to
whom they may award damages, and
they are required to complete their ,
work by the first day of next Novem
ber.
"Thrift, thrift, Horatioand in
tkvd tbir proposed legislation to jmy
ffir tho property destroyed by the
Pittsburgh mob strikes one, at the first
glaacc, as a most cunningly devincd
srlMtmc to take several millions of dol
lar* out of the State treasury, in the
•jpk-kest |Hwwible time, under the
svariU of nu irresponsible commis
si>M. Of course, the State is a much
bntwr |wy-mastcr thau Allegheny
county, and hence the strong desire of
interested parties to saddle the riot
hn*es u(ion the State treasury; hut
wa doubt exceedingly whether the
■Mother* of the legislature, outside of
Philadelphia and Allegheny, can be
brought to the point of voting to
compel tho ]>coplc of the State at
Urge to pay for the evil doing* of a
Deal nmh. Time will tell, and, in the
meantime, Mr. Speaker Long's bill
will bear careful watching.
Tho Sew York Appointment**
The practical contest between the
administration at Washington and
Beuator Conkling over tho appoint
ments to tho New York custom house
ended, on lust Tuesday, after an ex
ecutive session of the Senate thnt last
ed seven hours, in tho complete tri
umph of the former over the haughty
New York Senator. This result hud
been foreshadowed for some days pre
vious, though in the final struggle the
antagonism of Conkling to the per
sons named by Mr. Hayes to take the
places heretofore filled by Arthur ami
Cornell was none the less, bitter and
relentless. Gen. Merritt was named
for the position of collector of cus
toms, and Mr. S. W. lbirt for that of
Naval officer. On the confirmation of
Merrill the vote was thirty-three in
his favor to twenty-four against hini,
while Hurt weut through by a vote of
thirty-one to nineteen. The discomfi
ture of Conkling must he very humil
iating to him aud will no doubt inten
sify his hostility to Ilave.s and Sher
man. His speech in the executive
session was an angry, perhaps an elo
quent arraignment of the civil service
policy of the administration, and may
have shown up the hollowncss aud hy
pocrisy of its pretensions ill their true
light. In otic thing, however, the
speech was undoubtedly a failure. It
fell short of convincing n majority of
the Senators that those charged with
the executive functions of the gov
ernment, and therefore solely respon
sible for the official conduct of sub
ordinates, should be compelled by the
Senate to accept the services of agents
not in sympathy with them, or in
whom they have no confidence. It
may have suited the whim or the am
bition of Conkling that the men re
moved should bo retained for his ad
vantage and convenience, but surely
that is no reason why they should l>e
forced into official relations with
others to whom they are peculiarly
obnoxious.
The democrats of the .Senate who
voted for the confirmation of Merritt
and Burt therefore did precisely the
proper thing. It is the "stalwarts" of
the Republican jarty, represented by
such leaders as Coukling, Blaine, Ed
munds and others that could be nam
ed, who arc always growling nt the
executive branch of the government
and ever ready to encroach upon its
prerogative* on the false assumption
that the Senate is part of the remov
ing power. This new doctrine was
discovered in the days of Andrew
Johnston, and was wantonly enforced
against that President by the power
of a two-thirds majority that give
birth to that unconstitutional enact
ment known as the civil office tenure
act. The action of the Senate upon
these New York appointments, in spite
of the civil tenure act and in the face
ofConkling's arrogant airs and threats,
is to our mind a gratifying evidence of
a return to the light of other days and
to better method* of dealing with the
nominations in the Senate for confir
mation.
YKT Governor Curtin, *t Gettysburg,
last Ilworation I>ay, In his remark's Indi
cated tbe prevalence of the Idea assailed
by the /"res, when ho expressed his re
gret that the monuments erected on both
• ides of the linn had not been of wosid,
that they might soon decay and disappear.
—Prtta.
If all journal* copying the foregoing
should credit it to the Pmu, it would be
needle** to make any correction, but
lest some new*paper might inadver
tently copy it without naming the
nource from which the utatement ema
nated, it may be well to aay that Gov
ernor Gurtin expressed no such view* at
Gettysburg on last !>ecoration I>ay, or
any other day or occasion. He compli
mented President I [aye*, who wa* pres
ent, for the effort* for sectional t eace
and conciliation, and referred to toe ex
ample* of the ancient Greek*, who
built their monument* of Victoria* over
their own kindred in wood, that all
evidcncea of fraternal war might per
i*h, while their monument* of victorie*
over foreign encmic* were erected in
brat* to perpetuate the heroism of the
nation, and lie commended the le**on
a* a tribute of the policy openly advo
cated by the Republican President.
Governor Curtin bore a noble part in
the dedication of the Gettysburg rest
ing place for the brave loyaliata who
sleep on their grandest battle-field,
be idao bore a noble pert in erecting
the monument that stood before him an
imposing tribute to la* preserver* of
the Union when he spoke on last Dee
oration Day. He spoke then just as
Lincoln had spoken when he uttered
the immortal aentimenl—"With malice
toward none; with charity for all;" he
spoke, just as President flsyes spoke,
North and .South; he spoke just as a
sincere patriot would speak to the
whole American people, and he spoke
just as all but placemen and plunderers
are now ever glad to hear men speak.—
Philadelphia Times.
General Nhermuu at Allunta.
(from Ilia Allnnta Cunatfliitlofl.]
History furnishes few more dramatic
episodes than tlio one presented by the
visit of General hlioriinin to Atlanta.
Seventeen years ago he entered the city
at tho bead of a conquering army. In
tho near distance the guns of Hood's
army boomed sullenly. Flying before
the advancing legions,a cloud of women
and children curried from their homes.
Breaking now mid then through the din
of drum and trumpet come the sharp
crack of a rifle, as some maddened at
at the surrender of the city, fired on
tfte victors and then ended his pro
test with his life. 'J'wo months after
wards General Sherman left the city.
Yesterday General Sherman returned
to tho scene of this destruction and div
aster and looked upon tho answer that
our people had made to his torch. A
proud city, prosperous almost beyond
compare, throbbing with vigor and
strength and rapttirou# with tiie thrill
of growth and expansion, stands before
him. A people brave enough to bury
their hatreds in the ruins his hands
have made, and wise enough to turn
their passions toward recuperation rath
er than revenge, give him decorous
greeting.
General Sherman reached tho city on
the J2.54 train. A large crowd collect
ed along tho sidewalks to sco tlio Gen
eral of the army. The depot was com
-1 fortably fillod, mostly with white peo
ple. A sort of light, good humor per
vaded tlio crowd, spiced uj> with curi
( osity to see the man who had burned
; Atlanta. There was no perceptible in
dignation or feeling of prejudice. In
; most of tho clumps of talker# there
j were jokes flying to and fro. One man
proposed to Major (.'alhoun to go and
| offer the freedom of the city to General
I Sherman. "Ho made too d d free
with it, ' said the objector, "when he
|WM here before." Aa the train rolled
! into the depot General llugcr, Generui
i Augur, Colonel l'-lack and two or three
1 officer# went to the back of the train.
I A rather pretty lady wo* standing on
| tho rear platform. Almost immediate
ly she was joined by a tall gentleman
; with deadisli brown and gray whi-ker#
and thin face. Said General linger, for
! getting hi# mililary reserve, "There he
| is." Iho gentleman mixed his hat wiih
a quick and not ungraceful motion and
•aid: "Why, how uro you. Auger?" be
ing evidently pleased to see the gentle
man alluded to. lie earn# down the
step* rapidly, shook the hands of the
otlicers cordially, and then saving, "Gen
| eral, wont you tske care of the girls?"
[ started out of the depot with General
Ituger. There was no excitement and
!no demonstration. The people were
j curious to see General Sherman, but
made no rush at all. Upon reaching
the Kimball House General Sherman
registered, "W. T. Sherman, Mr. Tou
| til lot. Miss l.iirie Sherman and Miss
Kllie Sherman." General Van Vliet
and Mr*. Van Vliet registered below
i these name*. He expressed wonder at
the general thrifty look of the city and
went immediately to his room. The
! programme of the evening was a simple
| but pleasant one. After dinoer a num
ber of carriages called at the front o(
i the hotel and General Sherman and his
party were taken on a ride through the
| city. The officer* and ladie# of Mc-
Theraon Barracks gave Genera] Sber
man and his company a complimentary
ball at Md'hernon Barrarkr. last night,
-lust to the right of the main entrance
; General Kuger. Mrs. Kuger, Col. Black
| and Mrs. Black stood and receive! the
' guests as they came in. Several arrived,
among them somo of the citizens from
' Atlanta. Soon General Sherman and
his party arrived. Aa they entered the
| hall the bond struck up a grand march,
'■ and it scarcely afterward* gave time for
a general introduction. The first quad
-1 rille wa* called soon aflr Geueral Sher
man entered. The General asked Mrs.
Kuger to dAnce with him. and General
Van Vliet solicited Mrs. Colonel Black
as a partner, and the quadrille com -
rnenecd. Gen. Sherman took a hand
in all the dances except the round
dances. His second ou-wlrille was with
Mrs. Colonel Black, lie seemed to en
joy the fun hugely,
Thing* that we Export.
"After the season for English pear*
was past," says a london correspondent
of tho Springfield
my fruit man, with many mis giving*,
if be had any goo.l apples. Yes, he
had fine apples. Would I prefer Bald
win's, peach flavored Newton pippins,
russet# or greening* ?—all just arrived
from America. And I found that what
he *aid was true, and t.iat I could have,
in a* goo.l condition, with a very amail
increase in expense, as good apple* on
my table as if at home. About the
same time my fishmonger astonished
me by asking me if I would like some
Blue Points, And these 1 found of as
small size and fine, fresh flavor as if
nerved at IVlmonico's, and not as high
in price. Even at the small grocer
shop# one see* canned fruits, vegetables
and meats, all from America. Many
such article* are recommended lie
cause American. I had white cotton
cloth shown me the other day in a
•mall shop on which was the stamp of
a mill in Rhode Island."
"The price of butchers'* meat in the
metropolis, exorbitant as it i*," says the
I-ondon Globe, "has, no doubt, been
kept down by American exports, and
we have largely drawn upon the fertile
farms of the New World for pork,
cheese, and othsr items of agricultural
produce. We are also indebtod to the
United .States fur some of the brand*
of preserved meats, as likewise for a
variety of 'Yankee notions,' including
clocks, watches, the famous sewing and
washing machines, churns, lemon
squeexcr*, Ac. It seem*, however, that
America now proposes to compete with
us in other branches of industry.
Among ber reoent exports ore boots
and shoes and perfumery, jewelry, and
piece goods, we have no right to oom-
Rlain of these invasions, but it certain
r behooves us to endeavor to meet
them by producing, if possible, better
manufketured articles at equally moder
ate prices."
It l rumored that Dr. Le Moyne'x
cremation furnace at Washington. Pa.,
is to be converted into a pop corn fac
tory. 1
HENATOIt HILL ON WAR CLAIMS.
An extract from his late speech on
Warren Mitchell's cotton claims:
Mr. President, perhaps I ought not to
take tho time of the .Senate, hut 1 will
give my idea of the character of these
war claims, loyal and disloyal, by nn il
lustration from real incidents, i will
give you first, the character of it claim
that will not be paid, ami it is n type of
many millions, ivtriy in the month of
i September, 1805, it bccumo necessary
| for me, in the discharge of a professional
; engagement, to travel one hundred
: miles in the immediate track of Slier
'man's march through Georgia. <>no
day, about two o'clock in the afternoon,
j I became exceedingly hungry. 1 said to
; the youth who wus driving the horse:
j "You must etou at the ilrst favorable
i opportunity and let mc get something
ito eat." I shall never forget the ex
pression of the young man. "Ah ! 'says
he, "mister I don't reckon you will find
! anything yoti will consider fit to eat in
; this part of the country ; Sherman has
been along here." "Well," I raid, "but
; tlio people in this part of (be country
live on something, do they not ?" "Oh,
ye, but I don't hardly know how it i
j they live ; they seem t" livw though."
I "Well," 1 said. "I can live one dsy on
: what they live on constantly, I am
, pretty sure, and therefore we will stop
! at the most favorable chance apparent.
| It was not long before we came to a very
! good-looking frame dwelling, two stories
high, a dwelling of a character very
well known in the South, containing
six room. well built, and mdienting in
i former times country family well to do
in the world. The fencing was uii gone.
The chinine) s were standing on the out
side, showing that the outhouses bad
; been burned, but there stood the main
dwelling ; and I said to the young man :
"Stop here, and I will see if I can get
something to eatand I went in. 1
was met at the door by a vrry excellent
looking lady, modest, but evidently re
titles! and educated, as the turned out
lo be—a country lady of great hospital
Uy, but with an evidence of jovertv all
around her, and she looked pri maturely
old. She said to me when 1 tn.de
known iny purpose of stopping, "Why,
rny dear sir, I would be glad to give you
anything that I could, but I have noth
ing that you will have I suppose, noth
ing that I feel inclined to off, r you."
I "Anything that you have," 1 said, "will
suit me, because I a:n exceedingly
. hungry." She said, "I can prepare for
you nothing but some potatoes and
' soma egg. but I hsve nothing in which
to cook the potato** except the embers ;
we are in the habit of roasting theru in
the ashes. I have nothing iti which to
cook the egg* except the ashes or a
• broken skillet. I have not a wholo
pisre of furniture or a whole kitchen
implement on the premises ; everything
,is broken." She banded me a seal.
, Said she: "I have handed you the torsi
seat 1 have, and the back of tbst i*
I broken as you see." "Whf ts all this?"
I "Why," she said, "Sherman's army
passed along here and did all thi."
Well, I told her that 1 would lake the
potatoes and eggs, and she put them
in the ashes accordingly, and whiie
they were roasting I said to her : "Will
you please give me an account of your
experience and trials when Sherman's
army passed along here f She said
the would. I cannot give it all to the
Senate, but certainly it *• one of the
j moat interesting narratives I ever listen
ed to in my life.
The lady was one who had married
almut eight years before the war began.
'She was well raited and graduates! at a
female college in Georgia. She and her
husband settled that place and -built
thai house; they had about one thou
sand acres of land, thirty slaves, and all
needed personally, and were entirely
mil of debt, and perfectly happy. They
* had three children born to ibenr, the
oldest at the time of my visit being only
j twelve year* old.
Mr. Baca. Mr. President. I desire to
ask whether Warren Mitchell got any of
1 that woman's eggs and potatoes or not.
We are trying his cose now, not her*.
Mr. HILL. I will come to Warren
Mitchell's case. I will show how it ap
t plict to Warren Mitchell's case, but 1
•hall do it in my own way.
It turned out that her husband went
into the confederate army and lost his
life in one of the battles in Virginia,
i His remains were brought home and
buried in sightof where we wero sitting.
About a year after her hushand was
killed in Virginia in the confederate
army, Sherman's artny passed through
Georgia, and all her slave* except one,
' her cook, called Aunt Millie, left. This
Aunt Millie was raised with this lady,
■ and had nursed her in her infancy and
I wa* given to her by her,father ; and she
' said she would never leave her under
j any circumstances, and she remained
with her. Itut to m*k a long story
! short, everything they had was taken.
All the stock, all the provision# were
taken away. Everything that could not
lie carried away was killed or broken or
| burned, except one cow, two banka of
' potatoes, and one small crib of corn.
The cow wa# saved by Aunt Millie
; claiming It a* her own, which she did
j for the purpose of saving It. The corn
crib was saved in this way: The lady
sat in her house with her three children
. and saw everything being burned ; see
ing the torch about to be applied to the
last corn-crib she summoned courage
and went out with her ba!>e in her
arms and her two little children by her
side and satd to the officer who seemed
to have charge of the sport: "Mir, have
you a family at home ?" Tho officer
said he had a wife and two children.
"What would you think," said she, "if
a southern army should pas* through
your country and take the last mouth
ful of bread your wife and children
had ?" The officer was a man. He
lifted hi* hat most gallantly and then
•aid to hit squad, "Don't fire that crib,"
and said to the squad in th garden,
"Don't disturb those potatoes," and
that is the way tha lady saved the crib
of corn and banka of potato**. In the
meantime the squad hod gone into the
house, pulled down all the pictures, de
faced the walls, broke all the furniture,
broke everything she had in the shape
of kitebkn utensils, and carried off all
her silverware ana cutlery. The tost
aha aaw tbey were nulling the covering
from the grave of her husband, and
supposing tbey wart going to lake his
body oft she fainted away. Rut Aunt
Millie stopped them by tolling them
"for God's sake not to make war on the \
dead," and tlioy left. Thia is literal \
fact. That woman ha'l raised a patch !
of one acre of potato*a anil one email i
field of corn, working with her own ;
hnnd and aided by tliia good woman I
Aunt Millie, and ber three little chil ;
dren, and th.-y I.H<J lived on that MMO t .
allowance from tlio time Sherman's
army pa. ><-d by until I met her.
Now, that woman will never ooinn
here to have her louses repaired ; she
will never come here with a claim lie
fore Congre** and a.k for compensation.
And now I will give you another claim. '
A few wceka alter I t ok my scat as a
mcrubcr o( the other House in the For
ty-fourth C-ongn o I received a card one
ifay by a me- -enger w ho sa d that a lady
dwired to too n: in the Speaker's re
srp!!->n room. I went in. She waa cx 1
ceedingly well dressed. She had velvet i
and diamonds and lacs all over her, i
and the first speech she made to'jne
win to express the great gratification of I
all Georgians that 1 had been elect'd to
Coign •#. "for now," he aid, "all Geor- I
gians will get their rights." She soon
m i'le known the amvuti of that speech, '
for in the next sentence she said she
had a claim before (iongrsn which she
desired me to support, and she knew I
would support it because she was a
Georgia lady, born and raised in Goor
gin, and sh<- knew I would support her '
claim. "Well, who are you? I* you
were horn and raised in Georgia Hiid
had loose* in Georgia, why are you heie
in the condition i see you?" "Oh," I
•lie said, "wln-n Slicrur n's army
through Georgia they destroyed my '
property, hut." she added, "I married I
one of the Federal olllct-is [laughter!
and came North."
Mr. HOAX. She took her revenge in
that way. {Laughter.]
Mr. HIM.. Yes sir. She married a
Federal officer. The fir-', woman I
mentioned lo*t her husband in the con
federate army, and therefore is disloyal.
The *' - -nd womau married an officer in
the I'nii-n Ariny and therefor* is loyal!
Well, her statement was true because
she produced a very complimentary and
fl • t *• r.ng letter from General Sherman.
Kvidentiy the letter wa# genuine and
not dictated by a woman. But I will
ay in justice to General Sherman thai I
am -tn-li'-d he gave that letter raore on
account ol the w.,m.ti's husband, who
s< . Federal officer, than on account
of her claim. 1 asuine and believe he
did.
But I *ked this lady "what U your
claim for?" "Why," she ssid, "for
personal properly destroyed by Sber
man's army. "How much is your
clnitn for?" F.ight hundred thousand
dollars," she said, whereuj-on I became
'bewildered. light hundred thoui-and
dollar* of personal properly of one j-r
! son destroyed by the war! Yes, she
said, it i> well proven, proven by ibe
very officers and men who destroyed it.
who set fire to it, and the nan quite
a number of republican* in the House
who she said had promised to vote for
her full; fait they told her it was very
im|*ort*nt for ber to get a democrat, and
best of all a -outturn democrat, to in
troduce it. Therefore she came to me
as a democrat and a southern democrat
from her own State—her dear Georgia—
to introduce her bill. She said the re
juibliean* ns*uted her that if she would
.get a little re-enforeem nt from the
S<mtli and from the democratic party
; her hill would certainly become a Jw.
1 said to the lady. "It will he very diffi
cult to make me believe that the whole
, country ever at one time had eight hun
dred thousand dollars' Worth of {a rson
•l property." But she said "It is all
proven, it is all right, and the republi
cans are ready to vote for it." Ido not
say they were; I can only tell you what
the woman said, and as she is loyal you
ought to accept her a# a good witness.
{Laughter.]
Seeing that her cntrestie* could do
no good, the finally said to me that 1
had to vote for her bill; that she had a
great many friend* among the newspa
per men. and she sometimes wrote for
the new*p*|tcr herself; and, looking at
me with all the air of command and of
one having authority, she said, "Mr.
Hill, if you don't vote for my till you
will never (to to the Senate." There
upon, I made the lady * tow, pave ber
A Hal refusal to have anything to do with
her or her till, And left.
Those are aprcimen* of the character
of what you call Aoutbem claim*. Thi
fir*l claim will never come here; the
second and caae* like it will always be
here; and I aaw thie eame claim of
s*oo,ooo for the woman who became
! loyal ty marriage and for whom repnb
lican* were ready to vote—l saw the
aOie claim |>ara<led through the north
t-rn pro* in the campaign of IB7G w
evidence that if the southern dcroocrata
ever did get here in |mwer and the
democratic party had the majority, they
would take everything there wa* in the
Treaaury. Now, ahould 1 vote to tax
that woman who fed me on the egg* and
!otatoe* to pay thia woman in velvet,
see*, and diamond*? But thia claim,
' aaya my friend from Kentnekv. ia not
Mitchell's claim. What ia Mitchell'*
claim, to come to the bonet truth of it ?
I have not an unkind feeling for Mr.
Mitchell; I admit he ia a good man ; |
but doe* not every body in the Senate
know that it ia a apeculative claim ? I*
it not a mere apeculative claim ? The
woman I apoke of in Georgia loat her
I living, the living of heraelf and her lit
■ tie children, and ahe does not come here
to aek you for a dollar. Here ia a gen
tleman, a good gentleman, who went by
twtmiaeion of the military authentic
j into the South during the war and
bought a large amount of ootton by
which he hoped to realise a fortune, a*
you all know. He took the chaccea of
war in hia apeculation, and the chancea
were againat him. Shall we tax that
woman who fed me on the eggs and
potatoee and tax tha little land that ahe
and her children are working, for the
ptirpoee of paying theae apeculative
loaaea of Mr. Mitchell? Would it be
right? Would it be juat? I will not
do it.
All over the South there are hundred*
and thou*andaof people, iimpiog, weak,
poor, itn|overi*h*d by the war, laboring
aa beet they oau for a bare sustenance,
asking Coagreaa for no hing, not look
ing to the Government for compenaa
tion for their toeaea, and here and
there ia some man who has ioet some
thing, who baa loat HUM property, or
flailed to make whet he hoped for in
on, speculative venture, coming berc
and oiikirig Oirigres* to pay bis lo**ee,
an<l that wo thai! tax these joor people
to pay hia loose*. 1 -ball for one not
do it. 1 am againat these hill*, there
fore, upon principle. I do not need
any constitutional amendment to make M
me vote again at tliern. There will he a
great many hard cae, I concede. War
ii nothing hut an ordeal of hard cam*.
You cannot repair all thoae hard cane*.
Mr. Mitchell 2.at a btrd caae, but hia
ctoe it not harder than thousands of
othera who let like property or other
property, and wboare ju*t a* loyal at
iie via*. You cannot repair these fosses.
Let it go forth, therefore, that we take
tie position diatinclly and emphatically
that this talk of laying aouthein war ft
claims n.utt end, Toacii it to our peo-
I le and leach it to all the people, and
.ct all tLi* political excitement on the
subjc ct er.'l.
Mr. President, I am the humblest
•nan in the democratic party. That
1 arty, after eighteen years of absence, I
trut and believe, is about to return
foil licdgi d to power. 1 think it will
have posM-ciion of every department of
this Government. It certainly will have
it if wo convince the people, North and
Kou'h, thai we deserve to have it; for
evidently the people are well satisfied
that the republican pirty doea not dc
( rie to be continue'] iu jwiwer, and the
only question with the people is wheth
er the democrats p'Tty does deserve to
be intiualed with power. If 1 had con
trol of the jcirty, a* 1 have not, and
idisll never have, if my voice were
wi rth anything, there are four thing* I V
would nave the democratic parly t'
jroeUitn t,i the world in noit oonvinc
log t rrr a and adhere to with unflinch
ing fidelity. 1 would have the party
to say :
1. W will not pay war losses, loynl
Or disloyal, unlet* we uiakr a few excep.
tlon* of religious, educational, and
charit- ble institutions, and very few of
these.
2. We will vote no more of the public
money and no more of the public credit,
and more of tie public lands to build
upor enrich no mammoth monopolies in
the (hope ot railroad corf>orafions.
■I. We will in good faith jay every
dollar of the j üblic debt, principal and
inlet est, in g<cd money of the suntßci
Value.
4. We will restore the Constitution (o>
the country an<l honesty and economy
to its adminiatration, confining the
General Government to its Lrnited, dele
gated sovereign powers to promote the
general welfare, and leaving the States
unmolested in the exercise of their re
served sovereign jowers to promote the
local welfare of the people.
I>o these four things, and, in my
judgment, the child ia not boro who
will witrie** tbe termination of demo- f J
cratic administration in this country, "
and the tongue baa not been gifted with
language that can expr*s the prosperi
ty which will follow to all our people in
every section of our country.
;rc*a Uw Sn Tk Tl--.M (•*.]
Free government rests, at bottom,
upon tbe belief that if A strikeerll, B
will strike back. It is impoasihle to
place a corporal's guard at every man s
door. It is absurd to cry out that one
thouaand seven hundred ferocious white
men are killing four thousand black
men "like sheep." No man with a
grain of manly spirit could hnve reaped
for the four thouaand sheep who allow- "n
ed themselves to he led to the slaughter
by so small a minority, l.et ua have
dooe with that kind of nonsense. We
want every man. black or while, in this
country to have his rights ; hut no claea
of men anywhere. North or South, wi.ft
long retain their rights unlaws they ean
make their manhood respected by those
who would attack them. Wlfin Mr.
Breda tells the committee and the
countrv that four thouaand b'ark men
sutler themselves to be killed "like
sheep" by much leas than half their
nurnoer oi # whitea we prefer to believe
thai be libels tbe colored men.
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